Quotes About Restlessness

Fixing things, ticking off items on a checklist, boosted Madison's spirits, but the organizational high didn't last for long. Soon, she turned bored and edgy, looking for more things that needed her intervention.

He wondered briefly what it was like to dream. He never did. Possibly because he so seldom slept. He was obsessed with obtaining all the wealth he could, burning the midnight oil as often as possible. It protected a person from having to do things he didn't want to do.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

There is only one good thing about a small town You know that you want to get out - Songs for Drella

The mind wanders when it's never totally satisfied.

I don't know what came over me. It's like sometimes when it's very quiet I feel like screaming. And sometimes when I'm holding something delicate I feel like dropping it. I don't know why.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

People move too fast and talk too much, and before you know it, they come back to a place they don't want to be - except now they know there's nowhere left to run.

He was suffering from wanderlust, complicated by the tension of knowing that he was rooted to this town by something as simple as his name.

The feeling that she was going to explode, that she was too big for her own skin.

During summer, you wish you were in school so would have something to do. In school, you wish it was summer so you'd have nothing to do.

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst.Death isn't just an idea.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Like most classic bands, we only do an album every three or four years but that leaves a lot of down-time. And I don't like down time.

I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

I would love to enjoy leisure, but I find it very difficult to sit down and do nothing.

It takes me hours to get to sleep. I just lie there waiting, constantly thinking. I used to make lists, but it became addictive.